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Why?
Released 2003

Ferriswheel
02:24
2,584 plays

Afterschool America
01:19
2,547 plays

A Little Titanic
03:32
2,208 plays

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- 1
- Ferriswheel
- 02:24
- 2,584 plays

- 2
- Cold Lunch (Albert Brown Morhary Dumpster Dive Remix)
- 01:36
- 2,126 plays

- 3
- Afterschool America
- 01:19
- 2,547 plays

- 4
- Our Neighbor's Daughter
- 01:44
- 2,158 plays

- 5
- A Little Titanic
- 03:32
- 2,208 plays

- 6
- Weak Moon
- 02:14
- 1,754 plays

- 7
- Early Whitney
- 04:03
- 2,125 plays

- 8
- Dream On Cortelyou
- 02:55
- 1,677 plays

- 9
- Women Eye
- 01:32
- 1,891 plays

- 10
- Dirty Glass
- 03:27
- 1,780 plays

- 11
- Shirtless, Sheetless, And...
- 01:59
- 2,012 plays

- 12
- Bad Entropy
- 05:02
- 1,875 plays

- 13
- Seventeen
- 02:33
- 1,814 plays

- 14
- Ape In Cage With Wire Cutters
- 04:09
- 1,708 plays

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album review

Another baffler from the Anticon collective, Why?'s Oaklandazulasylum has more to do with awkward oddball folk than underground hip-hop, despite the presence of pungent beats on a handful of tracks. If you can get past the clothespin-on-nose delivery -- a cross between Big Bird and the wiry one from They Might Be Giants -- and the constant up-and-down swoops and dives in which it's delivered, the album has a certain sense of awkward, ramshackle charm that's frequently unhinged and claustrophobic at once. Anticon followers will lap all of this up, for sure. Others will know to steer clear from it. Incidentally, the album gets the Sentridoh Tortoise Award for Horrifically Scrawled "Ha Ha We Don't Care" Graphic Design. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide